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VMWare (
VMW) pushed the Computer Software & Services industry lower today making it today's featured Computer Software & Services laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.1%. By the end of trading, VMWare fell $1.19 (-1.3%) to $92.02 on light volume. Throughout the day, 1.3 million shares of VMWare exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1.9 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $91.16-$93.24 after having opened the day at $92.80 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $93.21. Other companies within the Computer Software & Services industry that declined today were:
inContact (
SAAS), down 6.9%,
Syntel (
SYNT), down 6.6%,
NCI (
NCIT), down 6.2%, and
Market Leader (
LEDR), down 5.8%.

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VMware, Inc. provides virtualization and virtualization-based cloud infrastructure solutions in the United States and internationally. VMWare has a market cap of $11.75 billion and is part of the technology sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 53.8, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 1% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are 19 analysts that rate VMWare a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 11 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates VMWare as a
buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, expanding profit margins and increase in stock price during the past year. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had somewhat disappointing return on equity.